Petrichus

Petrichus is a genus of South American running crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1886.[2]

Petrichus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Philodromidae
Genus: Petrichus
Simon, 1886[1]
Type species
P. marmoratus
Simon, 1886
Species

16, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains sixteen species, found in Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, and on the Falkland Islands:[1]

  • Petrichus cinereus Tullgren, 1901 – Argentina
  • Petrichus corticinus Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Argentina
  • Petrichus fuliginosus (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
  • Petrichus funebris (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
  • Petrichus griseus Berland, 1913 – Ecuador
  • Petrichus junior (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
  • Petrichus lancearius Simon, 1905 – Argentina
  • Petrichus luteus (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
  • Petrichus marmoratus Simon, 1886 (type) – Argentina
  • Petrichus meridionalis (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
  • Petrichus niveus (Simon, 1895) – Argentina, Falkland Is.
  • Petrichus ornatus Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1942 – Argentina
  • Petrichus sordidus Tullgren, 1901 – Argentina
  • Petrichus tobioides Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
  • Petrichus tullgreni Simon, 1902 – Argentina
  • Petrichus zonatus Tullgren, 1901 – Argentina

See also

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Petrichus Simon, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Simon, E. (1886). "Arachnides recueillis en 1882-1883 dans la Patagonie méridionale, de Santa Cruz à Punta Arena, par M. E. Lebrun, attaché comme naturaliste à la Mission du passage de Vénus". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 11: 558–577.


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